Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP) ...
- Monthly Salary : 12,000
- Expense for Constitution per month : 10,000
- Office expenditure per month : 14,000
- Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : 48,000 ( e.g. For a visit from kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km) .
- Daily DA TA during parliament meets: 500/day .
- Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train: Free (For any number of times) (All over India)
- Charge for Business Class in flights: Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.)
- Rent for MP hostel at Delhi: Free .
- Electricity costs at home: Free up to 50,000 units .
- Local phone call charge: Free up to 1, 70,000 calls.
- TOTAL expense for a MP [having no qualification] per year : 32,00,000 [ i.e. 2.66 lakh/month] .
- TOTAL expense for 5 years : 1,60,00,000 .
For 534 MPs, the expense for 5 years : 8,54,40,00,000 (nearly 855 crores) Think of MLA's and Ministers in India of 28 states and their expenditures per month.
This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities........
